Moulding the Personality Patterns

BY :MANSI DHINGRA

Moulding the Personality Patterns

• Two factors influence personality pattern: • 1. Hereditary potentials • 2. Environmental influences

HEREDITARY POTENTIALS•Studies of prenatal development reveal that the foundations of the capacities for adjustment are laid at the moment of conception. •The prenatal period of 9 months is rightly regarded as a critical period in personality development. •Neither personality patterns nor the specific personality traits are directly controlled by the genes. •But, indirectly, the genes affect personality affecting the quality of nervous system, and the structure of the body. • The principle raw materials of personality– physique, intelligence and temperament– are the foundations of personality which are genetically determined through inheritance. • Physical capacities– energy, strength and attractiveness are also limited by inherent characteristics. • No two people have identical personality pattern– hereditary endowment determined at the time of conception.

Environmental influences

• The development of hereditary potentials is largely dependent on the significant people in the individual’s environment.

• These people provide the physical and social environment to develop.

• They also determine what opportunities the individual will have for learning.

• The significant people will provide him pattern to follow.

How the Environment Moulds PersonalityThe environment is the sum total of all those conditions in which a person is born, brought up, and made to live and work. It has a strong bearing on the development of a personality on a person. The environmental factors that intimately affects outlook ,self image ,goals, attitude and impression of a person are heredity ,background and social backdrop.

When Personality Moulding Begins?

Sources of Moulding of Personality

Sources Of Moulding

Home ,Peer Group and the

community at large

SchoolMedia of Mass Communicatio

nReligion Occupati

on

Moulding Techniques

Child Training Method

Identification

Child Training MethodsThe goal of the child training method is to mould the child so that he will be able to adjust to the traditional roles prescribed by the cultural group. There exists no single philosophy of child training as the culture keeps changing. The child training method used also depends upon the values and attitudes of the parents and teachers of each individual child.This means wide variations in specific training methods, even though all have the same aim of producing a well adjusted person.

Kinds of Child Training Methods1.Authoritarian methods are characterized by the use of strict rules and regulations to enforce the desired behaviour. Under this method,it is not considered necessary to explain why the rules and regulations are important to the individual or to the social group. In case of failure to meet the standards ,the individual is punished, but little praise is offered when the person does meet the expected standards.

2.Democratic methods emphasize the needs for discussions, explanations and reasoning to help the young understand why they are expected to behave in one way rather than another.. On achieving the expected standards, the individual is rewarded and punishment is only given when the person wilfully refuses to do what is expected of him, and that too ,it is in very mild form.

3.Permissive Methods are not actually child training ,though parents and teachers may regard them as such. The young person learns more by trial and error than by guidance. In a true sense ,he is moulding his personality himself without guidance and help from others.

Variations in the Child Training Methods